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Volume 51 Number 14
Shelburne responds to Noble settlement
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April 7, 2022
Sam’s lambs
Taxpayers to pay out 200k to police chief COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
Shelburne taxpayers are finding themselves in familiar territory. For the second time in less than five years, Shelburne residents will be paying out their police chief’s salary through a settlement agreement following an abrupt suspension and will, instead, get consulting work from another former police head — thanks to town officials’ concerns about the direction of the police department. Former police chief James Warden, who served for 30 years, was placed under suspension in July 2017 by then-town-manager Joe Colangelo over concerns about how he was running the department. Aaron Noble, deputy chief at the time, was put in charge of the department. Warden and the town then reached a See SETTLEMENT on page 2
PHOTO BY LEE KROHN
The lambs at Shelburne Farms seem used to the camera. The flock is managed by dairy farm manager Sam Dixon.
South Burlington benefits most from new legislative districts AVALON STYLES-ASHLEY AND COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITERS
South Burlington is set to be a heavyweight in Vermont’s newly redrawn legislative maps, gaining another state representative and cornering a third majority in a new Senate district. But the city’s gain could also potentially overshadow several smaller Chittenden County towns like Shelburne, Hinesburg and
Charlotte lumped into those new districts. In the House, the city will share a fifth state representative with a portion of Williston and could rule one of three new Chittenden County Senate districts should Gov. Phil Scott lend his signature to the maps, which headed to his desk last week. “We will be well represented,” South Burlington city clerk Donna Kinville said. “Not to displace anybody else, but I mean, technically we are kind of the largest municipality in this group, and therefore have the
possibility of possibly having three senators.” The Legislature has broken up Chittenden County’s six-member Senate district, replacing it with two proposed three-member districts and one single-member district: Chittenden Central, Chittenden North and Chittenden Southeast. Two Chittenden County senators who currently reside in South Burlington, Thomas Chittenden and Michael Sirotkin, both Democrats, would keep their seats,
alongside Sen. Ginny Lyons of Williston in the new three-member Chittenden Southeast district. “For many of us who have been representing these towns and voters, it will be a continuing effort on our part and I look forward to it,” Lyons said. “There’s a lot of relief about having three districts instead of one.” Sen. Chittenden argued that the LegislaSee DISTRICTS on page 12